Gilbert Highet - Works

Works

Highet wrote voluminously. He is remembered today for:

  • An Outline of Homer (1935)
  • The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature (1949)
  • The Art of Teaching (1950)
  • Man's Unconquerable Mind (1954)
  • Juvenal the Satirist: A Study (1954)
  • The Anatomy of Satire (1962)
  • The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning (1976)
  • Another solution (1951) one of Highet's few fictional pieces, published in Harper's Magazine.

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    Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of the artist.... In relation to the inclusiveness and literally endless intricacy of life, art is arbitrary, symbolic and abstracted. That is its value and the source of its own kind of order and coherence.
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    The appetite of workers works for them; their hunger urges them on.
    Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 16:26.